take amiss
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George R. Tracy San Clemente, Calif. Not all vegetarians would take amiss John Leo's remark about their preverbal innocence.
From Time Magazine Archive
"He said--I am sure you will not take amiss what he said?" responded Max.
From Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy by Charles Major
Make poetry of what you please for me; But how if Mrs. Halm should take amiss Your breaking of her furniture to pieces?
From Love's Comedy by C. H. (Charles Harold) Herford
Whenever persons come to suspect each other, they take amiss everything even that is done in their behalf, and yield wholly to their belligerent instincts.
From Dio's Rome, Volume 6 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus And Alexander Severus by Herbert Baldwin Foster
Nothing thou writest of this sort can I take amiss.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 8 by Samuel Richardson
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